KKabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.Kabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.Kabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.abrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.
Cyberbullying
If you’re like most teenagers, you spend a lot of time on a cell phone or instant messenger chatting with friends and uploading photos, videos, and music to websites. You may have online friends whom you’ve never met in person, with whom you play games and exchange messages. Teens’ lives exist in a variety of places such as school hallways, part-time jobs, and friends’ houses. Now many teens also have lives on the Internet. And bullying has followed teens online.
Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens. Whether you’ve been a victim of cyberbullying, know someone who has been cyberbullied, or have even cyberbullied yourself, there are steps you and your friends can take to stop cyberbullying and stay cyber-safe. http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying
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KKabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.Kabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.Kabrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.abrina Moton, 16, of Cincinnati receives a text message on her cell phone reminding her to take her asthma medicine. The Digital Youth Project has found that the constant communication involved in social networking encourages development of useful skills.
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Cyberbullying
If you’re like most teenagers, you spend a lot of time on a cell phone or instant messenger chatting with friends and uploading photos, videos, and music to websites. You may have online friends whom you’ve never met in person, with whom you play games and exchange messages. Teens’ lives exist in a variety of places such as school hallways, part-time jobs, and friends’ houses. Now many teens also have lives on the Internet. And bullying has followed teens online.
Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens. Whether you’ve been a victim of cyberbullying, know someone who has been cyberbullied, or have even cyberbullied yourself, there are steps you and your friends can take to stop cyberbullying and stay cyber-safe.
http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying
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